{"id":3226,"date":"2014-08-21T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T01:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:59:17","slug":"dispatch-from-sierra-leone-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch From Sierra Leone: Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awful news from next door in Liberia in articles like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/21\/world\/africa\/ebola-outbreak-liberia-quarantine.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;version=HpSum&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/08\/20\/abandoned-10-year-old-a-tragic-symbol-of-the-ebola-epidemic\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Freetown, we&#8217;ve gotten some relief from the rain, and (knocks on wood) the number of new ebola cases per day has slowed considerably. \u00a0Let&#8217;s hope the break in bad weather continues.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trouble by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14983849212\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14983849212_11b4a9ae38_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Trouble\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sunset by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14961208576\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14961208576_36684229d3_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sunset\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clouds over Freetown by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14797600938\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14797600938_9e5908b10f_z.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Clouds over Freetown\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Freetown sunset in HDR by Tom Brouns, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/14797599408\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/14797599408_69a7eec961_z.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Freetown sunset in HDR\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this last one is an HDR trick. \u00a0More pictures from freetown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tazmpictures\/sets\/72157646175381472\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awful news from next door in Liberia in articles like this and this. Here in Freetown, we&#8217;ve gotten some relief from the rain, and (knocks on wood) the number of new ebola cases per day has slowed considerably. \u00a0Let&#8217;s hope the break in bad weather continues. Yes, this last one is an HDR trick. \u00a0More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1424],"tags":[1425,746,1423,191],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sierra-leone-places","tag-freetown","tag-hdr","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sunset"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7282,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/7282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}